On 22 January 2016 at 19:33, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > For example, if a package needs a specific version of libpng, > the package author can document this and the user can then make > sure to install that particular version.
The assumption that any given Python user will know how to do this is not a reasonable assumption in 2016. If a publisher wants to bundle a particular version of libpng, they can. If (as is also entirely reasonable) they don't want to assume the associated responsibilities for responding to CVEs, then they can stick with source distributions, or target more specific Linux versions (as previously discussed in the context of Nate Coraor's Starforge work) Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
